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Lotte/rs Patent N o. 96,108, dated October 26, 1869.

IMPROVED PAPER BOX.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. HnNDRicxsoN, of the city and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and improved Mode ot' Strengthening the Corner Angles of Square laper Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

.and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a .partof this -specication,iu which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a box, bottom upward, showing the application of this invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of .a section ot' ahox with open side up, showing the same.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a corner of a deeper box, and the application of the invention to the same in a modified form, n

Figure 4 is a perspective view from the inside of a corner of la box, with a part cut away, showing the application of the invention.

Figure 5 represents the t'orms the material used is to be cut. l

Paper boxes, now so extensively used for packing articles ot' merchandise, and for holding shelf-goods for exhibit, are generally very frail and tender in the they extend down to the bottoni edge and under the bottom, but are pasted around thecorners between which should be stronger in their corners than in other parts of the box, need not only to have their corners preserved-hom being broken, but also their top edges preserved, especially on the corners, which, by chaiing and rubbing, soon wear through the thin colored-paper covering with which the board in the box is covered.

By my invention, the corners oir both the body lof the box and its cover can be e'ectually strengthened in each direction, in all the jointures of the sides, ends, and bottom, or top, as the case may be, each with the other.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment and application of muslin, or any other suitable fabric, or leather corner-pieces, so formed and attached as will cover the immediate portion of the adjoining sides, ends, and bottom of the body or top ot'a paper box. Then muslin or other woven fabric, or leather, is used, the pieces used of the said material are pasted or glued to the board after the box has been formed or shaped, or may be thus attached in their places ai'- tertbeboxes -have been covered.

lor top which form the said corner.

Sample-boxes used in stores, in which to hold and exhibit goods, are, in most cases, quite large in their v length and breadth, and, being handled many times each day, from the shelves to the counter and back, suffer veryseverely in their wear, and very soon break at their corners. By my\invention, those exhibit or sample-boxes can be made not only strong and durable, but ornamental. And while the expense of the application of my invention to such boxes is but ters of reference marked thereon, the same letters indicating like parts.

- A, figs. 1, 2, and 4, represents a corner of a square paper'. box, or box-cover. In tig. 1 is represented a box, openside down,'showing the invention applied to the bottom or top of the cover, sides, and end. at the corners.

B is a piece of strong muslin, orother woven fabric, 0r leather, so cut and manipulated as to cover a sutiicient portion of each adjoiningl end, side, and bottom The pieces of the said corner-,piece are attached, by paste or glue, to the sides and ends, and arey continued to a length that will be sufficient to turn over the edges of the open side, and down on the same, as shown in figs. 2and 4. In manipulating and applying the material, it, is best, in most cases, to have the hips ot` the two parts of the piece used, to fall on the bottoni or on the top n of the cover, as shown -in a a', figs. l and 4, which the bottom and top edges. The covers of paper boxes,

shows one of the lappim ,r1)ieces a' turned cti', to be pasted down or glued. Thus the top of the cover or the bottom of the box would be doubly protected from the wear, which is greater on those parts than on the sides and ends.

In boxes of great depth, the pieces B used, need not in all cases cover the whole length of the corner, but may be applied as in iig. 3, and it' thought desirable, with an intermediate piece or strip ot' material the same as has long been used.

As there are several modes oi' manipulating the said piece B so as to cover the adjoining bottoms, or tops, sides, and ends of a corner, I would not decline using any of' them to apply 'to my invention, so long as the whole corner would be eiibctually strengthened and preserved from wear or rending; ,but in all cases, I provide in thepiece B, (no mattei' what its form may be,) the two covering-pieces a a?, one of which is to lap over the other, so that the bottom ofthe corners of the body ot' the box, or the top corners ot' the cover, will have two thicknesses of the material to cover and protect them, as-shown in figs. 1, 4, and 5; and in iig. 5 are shown by dotted lines, the

slight, the saving of the expense of' new boxes, which' others, with metalpieces, extending down at a little distance on both the inside and the outside.

Having described my invention,

What Ir claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1n combination with .square paper boxes, the pieces B, of woven fabric, leather, or other sheet-material, manipulated and applied substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: GEORGEIM. HENDRICKSON.

ALEX; SELKIRK, CHARLES SELKIRK. 

